In an interview with ESPN, Paolo Montero talked about his time at San Lorenzo in Argentina, saying that he didn't know if his dismissal was fair, but he recognized that the desired results hadn't been achieved.
Montero directed 17 matches for San Lorenzo: won four, drew five, and lost eight, scoring 15 goals and conceding 23. Although he started with a good unbeaten streak of four games, later on the team didn't have the same luck, and the stage of the former captain of the Uruguayan National Team was cut short after three months in the position.
Talking about why he left the club, Montero replied, "it was a managerial decision because the results weren't coming. In the first few matches, we got results, and suddenly we weren't playing well. When we started playing a little better, we didn't get results. I don't know if it's fair, but in Latin countries, the easiest thing is to fire the coach. The results didn't come, they asked us to step aside, and without any problem," he said.
Asked if he expected to find the club in the situation he found it, Montero said he didn't imagine that was the reality of the institution, although he said he still has a good relationship with the sports director, Mauro Cetto, and the directors. "Because of the affection I have for San Lorenzo, I hope the institution can improve, especially in sports. If not, it's not easy to support such an important team when you have 50,000 people every Sunday," he said.
Montero had to endure the departure of three very important players for the team like Juan Ramírez and the brothers Ángel and Oscar Romero, which he understood modified his plans "because of the kind of players they were, but it's normal" for that to happen. "Everyone knows that San Lorenzo has economic problems and also has to sell to survive," said the Uruguayan.
Also, Paolo dared to answer a question that circulates in the football atmosphere: Are the Romero brothers difficult to handle? "I didn't have any problems. Internally, I don't know, because I'm not a coach who invades the player's territory because I didn't like to have my territory invaded. But I didn't have any problems," he commented.
Montero likened the situation to when he was in charge of Rosario Central and they said he could have problems with Teófilo Gutiérrez. "No problems, on the contrary. When you go straight forward, what problem can you have...," the coach said.